noun (sometimes lowercase)
- a Briticism.
- the state of being English; characteristic English quality.
- a word, idiom, or characteristic feature of the English language occurring in or borrowed by another language.
- any custom, manner, idea, etc., characteristic of the English people.
noun
- a word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to the English language, esp as spoken in England
- an English attitude, custom, etc
- the fact or quality of being English
1640s, “anglicized language,” from Latin Anglicus “of the English” (see Angle) + -ism. As an instance of this, from 1781.